Tiktaalik

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Tiktaalik, which is now admitted to be a fossil with a "quality" that was "poor."

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  • Tiktaalik, a "fish with legs," which Shubin and his colleagues made in 2006. —  University of Chicago Chronicle
  • Tiktaalik which was predicted to exist and was found exactly in the predicted place in the geologic record. —  Wired Top Stories
  • Tiktaalik, it can be seen quite clearly from the photo if you rotate it 110 degrees clockwise, was spared drowning in the great flood because he was a clansman, and as such represented the forefront of social discourse circa Noah et al. Twitter —  Wired Top Stories
  • So off they went and found Tiktaalik, just what they were looking for in the place where they expected to find it. —  California Literary Review
  • Tiktaalik ( "large freshwater fish" in the local language). —  NPR Topics: News
 

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